Thursday, November 23, 2017

Happy 'Turkey Day'

This is a special post to wish a very happy Thanksgiving to all of my American readers. Can you all see the turkey head in the following blood smear? (you may need to use your imagination a bit).
The image is courtesy of my awesome lab education specialist Emily Fernholz. Can you tell what Plasmodium species is shown here?

3 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Yes, the turkey's beak is to the right. The infected red cell is smaller than the non infected ones, this shows a predilection for mature red cells a characteristic consistent with P. malariae.By the way the turkey seems to come a bit early at 5:05 am.

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